Peiping, Aug. 2.
American Embassy officials here yesterday sent their 33rd protest in five months to Japanese authorities "against ihe bombing of American mise sion property. The latest protest was against the bombing the American Lutheran United Mission at Kiohsien, Hunan, which was bombed for the second time in nine months on July 26. Six Japanese bombs landed in the mission compound and one scored a direct hit "on the "hospital, killing six Chinese patients and wounding two. The mission also was bombed by the Japanese on October 13, 1938—United Press. ropped their bombs on the thickly-populated city, The east and west Bates areas came in for special. attention. Buildings were demolished, and fires which started destroyed a considerable section of the city.
The panic stricken population are leaving the city and moving out into the country as fast as they can get away, and shopkeepers who hitherto had remained at their businesses are moving their surplus stocks into country towns and villages and just carrying on in the city with a meagre stock of the most necessary articles.
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